A lawyer for Sony said the studio will release “The Interview” after all.

So Sony has its confidence back. I guess that’s what happens when the guy who holds the launch codes to the world’s largest stock of nuclear weapons defends you publicly.

The studio canceled the Christmas Day release of the comedy — in which characters played by Seth Rogen and James Franco are sent to North Korea to assassinate dictator Kim Jong Un — after hackers from the country spent weeks releasing Sony employee information and embarrassing emails sent by company execs. The hackers also threatened violent attacks if the film was shown in theaters.

Last week, Sony said there were “no further release plans for the film.” But after the world lost its mind and even President Obama called Sony’s move “a mistake’ on Friday, Sony lawyer David Boies went on “Meet the Press” on Sunday and said the movie will come out after all.

“Sony only delayed this,” Boies said. “How it’s going to be distributed, I don’t think anybody knows quite yet. But it’s going to be distributed. And what Sony has been trying to do is to get the picture out to the public. But, at the same time, be sure that the rights of its employees and the rights of the moviegoing public are protected.”

In other words, they’ll wait until Obama does something about this.

A group calling itself “Guardians of Peace” — which U.S&gt; officials have concluded is another way to say “North Korea” — threatened action to theaters showing the film, prompting major theater chains to drop plans to screen “The Interview.” Sony then decided to pull the film.

“The decision not to move forward with the Dec. 25 theatrical release of ‘The Interview’ was made as a result of the majority of the nation’s theater owners choosing not to screen the film,” Sony said Friday in a statement. “This was their decision.”

Reports have circulated that Sony may release “The Interview” online, or release it via Sony PlayStation. Sony CEO Michael Lynton told CNN on Friday the studio was weighing on-demand release options, but “There has not been one major VOD — video-on-demand distributor — one major e-commerce site that has stepped forward and said they are willing to distribute this movie for us,” he said. “Again, we don’t have that direct interface with the American public so we need to go through an intermediary to do that.”

This movie better be good.

After Lynton’s comments, BitTorrent expressed interest in distributing the film, according to the Huffington Post.